WASHINGTON (AP) — It was an enjoyable presidential debut at the Gridiron Club’s annual dinner for Donald Trump, who dished out pointed one-liners and endured some barbs from political rivals and the press.
The gala was “was great fun,” he tweeted Sunday.
During his remarks Saturday ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defending himself weeks after the fact, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly on Friday insisted he had done “nothing to even consider resigning over” in his handling of domestic abuse allegations against a former top aide by the staffer’s two ex-wives.
Kelly did ...

Bouquet
From Lenore Kosovec, Kingsford:
To Daniel J. Paul and Darrell Laschen for their beautiful and very thoughtful letters in the Daily News edition on March 1.
They are on the editorial page and I would suggest everyone should read them.
There are lessons to be learned.

At this time of year, the only thing that’s likely to be up on the roof is snow or a Santa Claus way behind on his rounds.
Still, the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration probably figures its best to put out its cautions about working on rooftops before the ladders begin ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rattled by two weeks of muddled messages, departures and spitting matches between the president and his own top officials, Donald Trump is facing a shrinking circle of trusted advisers and a staff that’s grim about any prospect of a reset.
Even by the standards of Donald ...

EDITOR:
Menominee County is at a pivotal point, and we are seeking your input as the community focuses on the future.
If you live or work in the area, you know the development of an open-pit mine in Lake Township has been proposed. As a professor of economics, I am interested in capturing ...

MIAMI — The list of failures in the Feb. 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, are becoming legion. If any or all of those failures had been addressed, 17 students and teachers might be alive today.
In addition to the several balls dropped by the ...

Answers sometimes are difficult to find, but 211 is here to help.
Dialing 211 connects to a free, confidential service that provides callers with information on essential health and human services they might require. If you need assistance for yourself, a neighbor or a loved one, call 211 or ...

Today, many of the children are attached to social media, so much so that they miss the spontaneity, creativity and the joy of being outside in winter. Their world centers on social media. Let us turn back the clock to a different time and place ...
The sounds of children laughing and ...

There have been numerous school shootings over the past few years and, unfortunately, one is too many. The question we all ask when this happens is “Why?’ There is probably no one answer, as this took many years of society pollution to develop.
For example, in the 1940s, if you saw ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump threatened Wednesday to prevent construction of a border wall with Mexico in California that the state sued to stop.
In an early-morning tweet, Trump said he “decided that sections of the Wall that California wants built NOW will not be built until ...

Readers should be aware of a solemn ceremony set for Friday in a cemetery in downstate Isabella Township.
That day, the remains of U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Pfc. Arnold Harrison will be laid to rest with, we understand, full military honors.
Harrison, however, didn’t fall in Afghanistan ...

WASHINGTON — Andrew Cilek might be — this is just a hunch — unaware that 2018 is Brooks Brothers’ bicentennial. Judging by what he wore when he went out to vote in Minneapolis on Nov. 2, 2010, his preferences in shirts run less to button-down Oxford cloth than to chatty T-shirts. The ...

I have been watching and listening and naturally being amazed at the amount of misinformation being disseminated by too many groups. I want to say so much and could do that, as I have the education, the information, the real-life experience and the intelligence to do that. This time, though, I ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday named former digital adviser Brad Parscale as campaign manager for his 2020 election bid, a sign he is prioritizing loyalty as he works to secure his own political future in what is shaping up to be a bruising midterm election cycle for the ...

This week seems like winter might have turned a corner, with daily high temperatures above freezing predicted through the weekend. The sight and sound of melting ice and snow are everywhere.
Downstate, not surprisingly, is dealing with a much stronger dose of winter thaw, including flooding ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Looking for common ground with your neighbor these days? Try switching subjects from the weather to Congress. Chances are, you both agree it’s terrible.
In red, blue or purple states, in middle America or on the coasts, most Americans loathe the nation’s ...

EDITOR:
Where do you want the battle, if any, to happen?
I ask the question with regard to school shootings. If your main focus is arming school personnel, then any shooting that happens will be in the school building.
Another problem is the school personnel will be severely out-gunned, ...

Mining has deep roots in this community, and we have to stand behind the position the Marquette County Board took last week when it recognized the importance of the potential reopening of the Empire Mine.
Under market pressure, the Empire was put into an indefinite idle in early August 2016 ...

Hunting is a time-honored tradition here in the Upper Peninsula, a favorite pastime that many of us develop passions for at young ages.
Unfortunately, people born with serious physical disabilities might never have an opportunity to participate, and hunters who develop physical limitations ...